John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical RepublicanismUniversity of Delaware Press, 2006 - 305 pages In analyzing how Milton reads and appropriates different biblical texts to give shape to his republican vision, this book also assesses his significance to the development of early modern English political thought, his conception of the English nation, and finally, his response to pressures exerted by a secular modernity grounded on international commercial activities."--Jacket. |
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... central defi- nition of nationhood and national identity . The idea of the nation that constitutes an important controlling focus in this study is not monolithic in Milton's oeuvre . If Milton began in the 1640s with a vision of the ...
... central defi- nition of nationhood and national identity . The idea of the nation that constitutes an important controlling focus in this study is not monolithic in Milton's oeuvre . If Milton began in the 1640s with a vision of the ...
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... central features of Milton's theological and political thinking , chief among which are that tyranny ( in the church ) involves lording it over others and that the focus on ceremonies is traceable to an anti- Christian Roman legacy ...
... central features of Milton's theological and political thinking , chief among which are that tyranny ( in the church ) involves lording it over others and that the focus on ceremonies is traceable to an anti- Christian Roman legacy ...
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... central — at least in Benedict Anderson's influential ( anthropological ) reading of the idea of the nation and of the mod- ern emergence of nationalism — to the narrativization of a nation's biography and the construction of its ...
... central — at least in Benedict Anderson's influential ( anthropological ) reading of the idea of the nation and of the mod- ern emergence of nationalism — to the narrativization of a nation's biography and the construction of its ...
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... Central to this contestation are ideas about Englishness and nationhood , for the official character of the English church is directly tied to the definitions of national and cultural identity . One of the criticisms leveled against ...
... Central to this contestation are ideas about Englishness and nationhood , for the official character of the English church is directly tied to the definitions of national and cultural identity . One of the criticisms leveled against ...
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... central informing sources and influences ? 16 The idea of radical thinking and of radical politics fun- damentally has to do with the cataclysmic shaking up of an old - world order , dismantling certain deep social and cultural ...
... central informing sources and influences ? 16 The idea of radical thinking and of radical politics fun- damentally has to do with the cataclysmic shaking up of an old - world order , dismantling certain deep social and cultural ...
Table des matières
30 | |
Authority in the Ideal Republic | 71 |
Nationhood | 126 |
Of Prophets and Politics | 170 |
Internationalism | 211 |
Notes | 255 |
Works Cited | 285 |
299 | |
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John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism Walter S. H. Lim Affichage d'extraits - 2006 |
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